Signs for the new Joe Vicari's Andiamo Italian Steakhouse have already been installed at Andiamo's Bloomfield Township restaurant on Telegraph Road. The company's new steakhouse menu is tentatively set to debut Aug. 6 at the company's Bloomfield Township, Dearborn and Warren restaurants. / Sylvia Rector / DFP

Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

The new Joe Vicariís Andiamo Italian Steakhouse restaurants in Warren and Dearborn will open later than the Aug. 6 date planned for the Bloomfield Township location, the company says.

The new steakhouse concepts are replacing the existing Andiamo Italian restaurants in those cities.

The Dearborn opening is scheduled Aug. 13 and the newly remodeled Warren restaurant will open Aug. 20, Andiamo founder and CEO Joe Vicari said this week.

The new steakhouse menus will retain some of the Andiamo classic pastas ďthat made us who we are today,Ē Vicari says. But they will emphasize aged steaks from some of the nationís top butchers as well as pasture-raised, hormone-free veal and lamb, more fresh seafood, and more seasonal and local ingredients. Imported specialty items including cheeses and Mediterranean fish will also offered.

All steaks will be aged a minimum of 28 days; some will be longer. The menuís signature dish will be a long-bone, 32-ounce rib eye called the Tomahawk.

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